Basic Aspects of Hearing Physiology and Perception [Paperback]

The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious, triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers.

Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50 chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.

Topic 1: Peripheral processing.- Chapter 1. Mosaic evolution of the mammalian auditory periphery.- Chapter 2. A computer model of the auditory periphery and its application to the study of hearing.- Chapter 3. A probabilistic account of absolute auditory thresholds and its possible physiological basis.- Chapter 4. Cochlear compression: Recent insights from behavioural experiments.- Chapter 5. Improved psychophysical methods to estimate peripheral gain and compression.- Chapter 6. Contralateral efferent regulation of human cochlear tuning: Behavioural observations and computer model simulations.- Chapter 7. Modeling effects of precursor duration on behavioral estimates of cochlear gain.- Chapter 8. Is overshoot caused by an efferent reduction in cochlear gain?.- Chapter 9. Accurate estimation of compression in simultaneous masking enables the simulation of hearing impairment for normal-hearing listeners.- Chapter 10. Modelling the distortion produced by cochlear compression.- Topic 2: Temporal fine structure and pitch.- Chapter 11. How independent are the pitch and the interaural-time-difference mechanisms that rely on temporal fine structure information?.- Chapter 12. On the limit of neural phase-locking to fine-structure in humans.- Chapter 13. Effects of sensorineural hearing loss lÓ4